Women and ScienceFor generations, aspiring women scientists have looked to Marie Curie, the famed Nobel Prizewinning chemist, for inspiration. But what lesson, exactly, are they to draw from her example? Marie Curie was exceptional, but she was ordinary as well. She faced all the trials and tribulations shared by women of her time; furthermore, she had to contend with the barriers against womens wider participation in educational institutions, in scientific practice,